Wed, Oct 14 at 4:00pm, 8:00pm | Sat-Sun, Oct 17-18 at 11:30am
Long before it became associated with flesh-eating ghouls, the zombie was a living metaphor for slavery — not a monster, but the ultimate victim of colonial power, a symbol of stolen agency was recast as an object of fear. Director Maya Annik Bedward traces the evolution of the zombie from colonial Haiti to contemporary Hollywood, exposing how Black spiritual traditions were distorted and erased. Part of
Doctober and
Shocktober